Quotes with chess

  • Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
  • Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
  • On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
  • It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
  • No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
  • We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
  • I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
  • Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
  • The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
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  • Anatoly Karpov Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • Bobby Fischer A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Garry Kasparov Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Garry Kasparov Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Garry Kasparov Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Gary Kasparov Chess is mental torture.
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  • Viktor Korchnoi Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
    Viktor Korchnoi
    Russian chess player (1931 - 2016)
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  • Marcel Duchamp I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
    Marcel Duchamp
    French painter and sculptor (1887 - 1968)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bobby Fischer I felt that chess is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Garry Kasparov I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Charles Buxton In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Boris Spassky In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Bruno Schulz In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Viktor Korchnoi No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
    Viktor Korchnoi
    Russian chess player (1931 - 2016)
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